Simulação numérica da dispersão de poluentes em solos. Estudo de caso: lagoas de estabilização.

Abstract

Contamination of soil and groundwater is a growing concern, as the activities that trigger are in process of accelerated growth. For example, can cite the leak stabilization ponds. Such leaks can occur for cracks or breaks in the pond base, which may be located or distributed. To contribute to remediation of sites affected by contaminants and using the computational fluid dynamics, this paper carried out a transport study of such contaminants in soil which is just below a general stabilization pond. To this end, we used the technique of finite volume and modeling of flow in porous media using the ANSYS CFX ® 12 computational package. Generated a twodimensional structured network and realized the simulations considering laminar flow, isotropic medium, saturated soil, single-phase flow and isothermal. Despite the existence of experimental and / or numerical studies show that the plume behavior or variation of the contaminant concentration with time, none has simultaneously both possibilities result and quickly, since the simulation lasted one hour on average. Analyzing the concentration profiles of the considered pollutants (cadmium and copper) with the longitudinal distance and the depth we obtained a good agreement with data from the literature. The same can be said regardinghistory of cadmium and copper. So in addition to viewing the scope of plume due to simulation, it was possible to determine how long it would take place in order to provide greater subsidy to remediation processes.